By Jo Nova
It’s lucky the world has so many billionaires to save us from Democracy eh?
But instead of persuading us, or doing honest adverts to save the world (which they could obviously afford) they prefer the deceptive approach.
If you think Hollywood is boring these days, there’s a reason
Chris Morrison at the Daily Sceptic found the Go-To Guide for hiding climate propaganda in Hollywood Movies where children won’t even realize they are being spoon-fed political products:
Green Billionaires Press Hollywood to Promote Armageddon Climate Messages in Movies
Good Energy aims to weave climate alarm into all types of film-making, “especially” if it is not about climate. With the support of Bloomberg, it recently published ‘Good Energy – A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change’. It claims the Playbook is “now the industry’s go-to guide to incorporating climate into any storyline or genre”. As with almost all green campaigning groups, Good Energy would not exist without the support of billionaire funding. These operations seek a supra-national collectivist Net Zero solution to a claimed climate emergency. Good Energy acknowledges it would not exist without this funding, adding, “as collaborators and champions, each has provided a unique contribution for which we are endlessly grateful”.
If action against climate change is woven into the cultural wallpaper, children may not even be able to imagine a world without FakeBurgers and windmills. The seas will endlessly rise while somehow staying in the same place, like living in an Escher puzzle. Every storm surge will be fossil fueled and every retreat will be invisible.
Have you run out of plotlines? Good Energy can help…
Rolling Stone puts the details on the climate movie wallpaper being fostered. Instead of boring statistics and depressing details, Hollywood “is playing its part”. It’s creating heroes that, ah, do what the billionaires want:
How Hollywood Is Crafting A New Climate Change Narrative
Take the Netflix show, Unstable, for example. In the new series, Rob Lowe stars as a genius biotech innovator, who’s created a slew of planet-saving solutions. The Hulu mystery, A Murder at the End of World, hones in on a tech billionaire who wants to save the world from climate change. Hulu’s Indigenous American comedy-drama, Reservation Dogs, features Dallas Goldtooth, an advocate for the Land Back Indigenous sovereignty movement. The CBS sitcom, Ghosts, rolled out an episode called “The Tree,” that dives into different ways a few of the central characters relate to nature and climate change.
And if you were a billionaire invested in EVs or batteries, you’d want heroes to help your investments grow too, right? (Especially, now).
Donations to Hollywood Propaganda Inc are a tax deductible advertising expense that’s not called advertising. It’s something you can brag about at Davos!
According to an analysis by the Norman Lear Center’s Media Impact Project and Good Energy, which supports TV and film creators in telling compelling and accurate climate stories, less than 3 percent of film and TV scripts from 2016 to 2020 mentioned climate-related terms.
For now, the organization is dedicated to ensuring that by 2027, 50 percent of contemporary TV and film acknowledges climate change.
What this also guarantees is that it buys up some writers that might have mocked climate change. De facto it squeezes creativity out. That only works though, if some upstart production unit doesn’t cherry pick off the sacred cows of modern climate-moo, and have a riotously funny time doing it. That probably won’t happen in Hollywood, but it might on Twitter, which is why Elon is such a threat. It only takes one popular rebel to breach the whole cultural fake facade.
This goes deeper than just being a renewables advert
The Playbook notes that “indigenous people are the first climate scientists, and indigenous people are leading us through this climate crisis”.
If raindancing shaman were the original climate scientists, then science itself is just another religion, and it’s nothing special. The whole idea of hypothesis testing, pffft. The modern scientists are just an upgrade on the original voodoo, not a totally novel philosophy that transformed the world.
See what they did there? They’re not just selling windmills, they’re undermining a civilization.
It is a cultural war, whether you want one or not.
The sponsors behind the subliminal advertising program are groups like the Sierra Club, which is then funded by the Tides Foundation, among others, which was in turn funded by the usuals: the Rockefellers, the Soros, the Hewletts, and the Packards, and all the rest. There are a hundred other variations for the money to flow from the Uber Rich to protect their investments and keep the riff raff happy voting for absurd Presidents and Prime Ministers, and content to holiday at home with a heat pump.
The men with the most money in the world will craft our culture if we let them.
Tell the children…
Fantasy female hero image by Stefan Keller
Maybe we need to get some of these “promoters” into a court to prove the validity of their argument that human origin CO2 is “dangerous”.
There are many scientists who could rip their dangerous gas theme to shreds; but we must unfortunately remember the navalny syndrome.
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There are some alternative health practitioners who hold that a vomit can be health-enhancing.
For your constitutional disgorgement , I offer the following :-
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3r12knsFwz/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA%3D%3D
Clowns like this one cannot have arrived at their beliefs by a scientific process ” I used to believe . . . .”
Obviously he still does believe.
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Judges and courts across the western countries have for over a decade now (and likely earlier) done their very best to prevent cross-examination of the various anthropogenic climate change hypotheses.
The lone Federal Court judge who initially ruled in favour of Peter Ridd (Vaitas J) was not only over-ruled by the full Federal Court, which judgement was subsequently upheld by the High Court, but some time later was clobbered by a huge fine for some “mis-ruling” he allegedly made on an entirely different matter. This latter event is perhaps commonly known as sand-bagging (from behind). The final judgement against Peter Ridd was based on industrial law and avoided the scientific arguments by design.
Mark Steyn has just had a $1 million damages fine slapped on him for no other reason than he had mocked the climate change hierarchy – the Court did not demure from that vindictive impost from a selective jury.
There are many examples of Judges and Courts deliberately avoiding cross-examination of anthropogenic climate change hypotheses. The few that struggled to be heard are then not reported on by the MSM.
Courts will not uphold the “test hypotheses” concept in anthropogenic climate change issues.
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Good thought. Maybe we also need to see how many billionaires fly everywhere in private jets, live in village sized houses of which they usually have several to spend a little holiday in. This is all without a care of their so called carbon footprint. No bigger hypocrite than those who show they couldn’t care less but lecture us.
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In conversations with others, it may be better to regard it not as hypocrisy but as scientific proof. ie, the fact that climate activists fly to climate conferences in CO2-emitting planes instead of going there much more cheaply online is absolute proof that man-made CO2 does not adversely affect the climate.
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Don’t you understand how much energy the server farms consume?
s/
but, our addiction to electronic communications and entertainment is energy intense, isn’t it?
on topic, Hollywood is committing suicide and we should not intervene. I have not been in a movie theater since 1998. Only have TVs because I have a wife and I do enjoy old movies, old sitcoms and history. Science programming was subtlely compromised long ago and now is overtly spewing the ideology
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It used to be gratuitous sex scenes… now it is gratuitous climate change scenes. The dying of a culture is both tragedy and comedy.
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I must say I prefer the latter. Those 90’s movies and their protracted “love scenes” were absurd. Thank goodness that has died off.
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Now it is a case of “make your own love scenes” Fans Only is the YouTube of the amorous arts
I see that some Australian Fans Only stars signed up “Schoolies” to appear in a very successful production and this year will be doing the same for “Spring Break” in the USA.
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You were too young and missed the 1970s films?
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I stopped watching most movie/tv product in the 2000/teens. Apocalyptic, zombie rubbish, it all seemed like a herding thing. Now, of course, we know it was.
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This modern habit of describing lovemaking in detail is something that future generations will look back on as we do on things like the death of Little Nell – George Orwell.
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And what about our old mate ‘The Twigstger'(of Forrest fame) who damns nuclear for whose benefit???
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Indeed. That “first nations” as the “first climate scientists” is a common meme of the Left now.
Australia’s purportedly premier scientific organisation, CSIRO, even says so:
It’s just virtue signaling BS. Stone Age people were not scientists but not surprisingly did learn from experience and observation signs of changing seasons. There is nothing remarkable about that.
And then we have this:
It’s a bit rich Aboriginals talking about biodiversity when their constant burning of the land eliminated non-fire-resistant species and they also likely wiped out the megafauna as well.
Just follow the money trail.
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The average climate “scientist” should aspire to be as scientifically advanced as our indigenous Stone Age Australians.
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It does not say that you’re making that up. Surely?
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In case of disbelief, click on the link.
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Did you know that Aboriginals invented the wheel
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BTW, it’s not “racist” (the usual ad hominem of the Left) to suggest aborigines wiped out the megafauna.
Even that darling of the Left, Australia’s leading “climate scientist” (you know, Mr “so even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems …“) with degrees in English literature and the evolution of macropods, Tim Flannery, has stated that.
It was even reported in The Age (The Spencer Street Soviet).
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This idea they were custodians, wise environmentalists, is such nonsense. They were survivalists. They did what they did to survive and promote food and safety.
I’m yet to meet a green aboriginal. They are the least likely to have any interest in enviro matters at all.
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It is the myth of the noble savage.
There was no such thing.
Life was harsh, cruel, brutal, unhealthy, violent, involved constant warfare, kidnapping and abuse of women, very often involved infanticide and even cannibalism.
It was certainly no utopian existence which is why native peoples everywhere usually rapidly adopted the ways and technology of European settlers.
There are almost no native people today that continue to live traditional lifestyles because they think they are more desirable than Western ways.
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The Natives of Sydney quickly saw the advantages of European Civilisation
https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/phillips_table_food_in_the_early_sydney_settlement
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People need to read the realistic books by Xavier Herbert which describe aboriginal life in Australia and the Islands going across to New Guinea .
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“Life was harsh, cruel, brutal, unhealthy, violent, involved constant warfare, kidnapping and abuse of women, very often involved infanticide and even cannibalism.”
So their culture was necessarily different than your own. There’s no shortage of the listed detriments in European-based cultures as well as indigenous ones. There are wars and smaller conflicts constantly taking place everywhere with more lethal effects than could be imagined by any primitive tribesman. Pre-industrial cultures didn’t have to worry about nuclear devastation in a few moments time. Unhealthy? Western societies are famous for being overweight and unfit. Travelers at the beginning of world colonization all noted the remarkable health of the natives while their own personnel were stricken with scurvy and other diseases related to bad food, sexual license and unsanitary habits. Kidnapping and abuse of women continues in even the most cosmopolitan cities. Infanticide is an obsession. OK, cannibalism seems to be on the decline but who knows?
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An interesting point: true, things have never been perfect but we can go a little bit deeper.
The healthy natives point;
“Travelers at the beginning of world colonization all noted the remarkable health of the natives “.
It should be acknowledged that they were looking at the survivors. What were the relative life spans of the travelers and natives?
And “world colonisation”? Hasn’t that been going forever.
The West is now in a big mess, hopefully it is a turning point to something better, but there’s a lot of pain at the moment.
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Yes, but you’ve actually met a few aboriginal people. The lefties who idealise pre colonial aboriginal life in Rousseauean terms have never met one. They know everything about aborigines because they “did it at Uni”.
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An Inconvenient Truth Telling…
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“Just follow the money trail”. It’s not a long road stretching only the distance from government to elitist university-educated activists
We don’t need a two-tier society!
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There is Stonehenge which has been described as helping farmers determine the change of seasons since Britain is notorious for rolling its seasons into one continuum. The Mayas built magnificent structures which were determined to have a connection to the rainy season, including the arrival of El Nino. It is speculated that when the El Nino failed to arrive and took the rain away the peasantry lost faith in the science gurus, the priests, and left for greener pastures. Despite what Bruce Pascoe asserts we have not seen any long lived structures that helped the local “scientists” to determine when a good season was coming or to prepare for another drought. I guess they just threw a handful of dust in the air to determine which way the wind was blowing.
The bottom line is that the CSIRO is no more believable these days than Bruce Pascoe. Go woke and one day they will go broke when funding is withdrawn.
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I’m going to disagree with you. Indigenous people who lived in the forests we call the Great Dividing Range waited for a particular plant (can’t remember which. Bottlebrush?) to finish flowering. They knew winter was coming. They packed up, set fire to the bush and buggered off to warmer climes. Then, when the wattle bloomed it was time to head back.
Indigenous were and are aware of the seasons. It doesn’t make them climate scientists, or any type of scientist. It makes them ‘aware’.
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‘Science’ really only means ‘knowledge’. Early peoples did indeed have some very good knowledge, without which they could not have survived. But it was only a tiny fraction of the knowledge that we have now. It’s a good idea to try not to lose knowledge, neither the old knowledge nor the new knowledge. Unfortunately, there are a number of people pushing to destroy the newer knowledge.
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“Internationally, Indigenous people make up less than 5% of the world’s population …”
What utter rubbish! The ancestors of most Europeans have probably lived in Europe for thousands of years. Europeans are indigenous to Euopre, Asians to Asia, Africans to Africa, etc.
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I think a lot of TV shows have always had various messages built-in but I get the feeling that writers are far less skilful than they used to be. Much like actor/activists, they also now seem to think it’s their duty to “educate” the rest of us – with all the subtlety and elegance of a brick to the face.
Just shows how successful the “long march through the institutions” has been with both indoctrination and destruction of the education system.
As an aside, “Ghosts” is a US version of a British comedy (same name). The British one had occasional drifts towards black comedy and was generally amusing. As with a lot of copies, the US version leaves a lot to be desired, in my opinion anyway.
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Can’t see the Forrests from the Fools with more money than good sense
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Give me a break. The CSIRO and the BOM convened a meeting in Cairns to “share insights” into tackling heatwaves, rising seas and species deaths!
Well both organisations might as well ask the natives because their own “scientific” contributions ove rate pat 20 years have been less than stellar. The BOMs latest contribution last year at forecasting an El Niño, that spectacularly failed to arrive, and we well remember Prof Jennifer Marohasys demolition of the CSIRO “science” with regard to their Murray Cod Extict headline 20 years ago. They also stuffed up a paper on Rice Water Use, around the same time, apologising for putting the decimal point in the wrong place, in an article featured on the front page of the Australian, the apology only made page 11.
I could go on but these people have become activists and have resorted to adjusting the historical data to create trends and scare the populace. This resembles the Cultural Revolution in China under Mao 60 years ago, with Government agencies spruiking a Government line to aid said Government controlling the populace for political ends.
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CSIRO and BOM are the classic “Ships of Fools”
The ship of fools is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato’s Republic, about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge.
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Sounds awfully like Canberra
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Ship of Fools was recently applied to the expedition to the Antarctic to show how the ice pack had retreated and then got stuck in the ice that they said didn’t exist. Sadly they were rescued at much cost to taxpayers.
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As a personal duty, I must ask. Where on earth have the seas risen?
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Mostly only where the local part of a tectonic plate is subsiding.
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The aim is to brainwash kids. But if it is any solace, I know two kids quite well that have rejected their parent’s leftism. The older one at 18 who has begun working as a mechanic and discovered taxes being taken out of the pay and so now questions government employment the taxes pay for. The younger via video gaming and love of Kanye West. Him and his mates liberally use banned words and make jokes of the tradional taboo topics. I’m amazed as the parents (gen X) are green and left to the bone.
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Very good news.
There is hope!
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All kids enjoy a bit of rebellion against their parents and start to form their own opinions from the lived experience. Extroverted parents seem to produce somewhat reticent children, and vice versa. I have seen it all the time. Hopefully the Gen Zedders will question their Gen x and Y [arents and see the light on all this climate panic.
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I am looking for an onga-bonga aboriginal barometer for my collection. Can someone tell me where I can buy one?
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Well, they didn’t need one. They actually witnessed dramatic sea level rise in their time, and they simply walked where the land lay. Didn’t seem to cause too much issue. You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows?
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Why do you think we have a subsidised ferry service?
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In fact their TOXIC W & S couldn’t be dirtier and of course has to be changed every 15 to 20 years and includes thousands of KLMS of TOWERS that are built on pristine land and in the ocean environments as well.
And the Aussie average CAPACITY FACTOR for WIND energy is just 30% and about 15% for Solar.
The OECD countries will waste endless TRILLIONs of $ and waste decades building and re-building these TOXIC W & S disasters and all for ZERO measurable change to temp and climate.
China, India and other developing countries will continue to build RELIABLE, BASE-LOAD power plants and will become more powerful while stupid OECD countries will be weaker and very vulnerable within a few decades.
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Neville. That is the whole idea. The West has to be destroyed and what better way to do it than to have it destroy itself. China and India will be the biggest winners. I suspect that neither of those countries will take a jot of notice of the WEF or the fools of Davos unless it is of benefit to them. The likes of Bowen is either complicit in our demise or extremely stupid. I suspect the latter.
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But fortunately, no one watches movies anymore because they’re so bad. I haven’t been to a cinema in years.
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Agreed. I haven’t been to a movie theatre in many years, there is simply nothing worth watching, especially because the movies are full of wokeness.
I did make one exception though to see Top Gun: Maverick. No wokeness and therefore a highly successful and profitable movie.
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Maverick not woke but a highly implausible plot. Audience did not care and loved it anyway.
Oppenheimer was quite good and also the previous Dunkirk and Their finest hour.
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Gaming Industry Dominates as the Highest-Grossing Entertainment Industry
https://gamerhub.co.uk/gaming-industry-dominates-as-the-highest-grossing-entertainment-industry/
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It seems even counting to 100,000 generates more interest than movies these days
Mr Beast (Jimmy Donalson) has the most popular English YouTube channel with 241 million subscribers
In January 2017, Jimmy Donaldson published an almost day-long video of himself counting to 100,000, which became his breakthrough viral video.
Another popular videi was watching paint dry for an hour.
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As are the videos from the cabs of long distance train journeys
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some years ago I went to the Sydney Opera for an outside performance of Turandot. Before the actual event the audience was solemnly informed to be respectful of the sacred location because it used to be a place where the aborigine elders came together in congress.
I considered how that could be transposed to the Opera in Amsterdam: Folks are reminded that on this very place our venerated ancestors the Bataves used to congregate … for the drinking of lots of beer and the gambling away of their women.
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Given that the Opera House is built on reclaimed land and is sitting on 588 concrete piers sunk into the seabed, it’s difficult to see how that could be.
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More fake Aboriginal history
Ernie Dingo rose to fame when he controversially collaborated with Richard Walley to create a public performance of the “Welcome to Country” ceremony in Perth in 1976, after dancers from the Pacific islands would not perform without one.
Dot painting originated 40 years ago back in 1971. Geoffrey Bardon was assigned as an art teacher for the children of the Aboriginal people in Papunya, near Alice Springs.
The Australian Aboriginal flag was designed by artist Harold Thomas in 1970.
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Interesting. There is an AAP Factcheck that claims the Geoffrey Bardon idea is wrong. It seems to me that the issue is easily settled – one piece of dot-painted ancient aboriginal rock art would settle it. I note that the AAP “Factcheck” does not show one. Surely if one existed, they would have known about it and presented it as evidence.
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I was told in the NT decades ago that the Aboriginal art from that area was actually mud maps.
The various elements represent resources (wateer, particular plants, etc) and distances were involved. Unfortunately, I wasn’t told how to read them.
That may or may not have been true.
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Old Cocky that’s usually the case .
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Why does it matter if an indiginous desert art movement is not ancient?
Just for your interest, the use of dots is claimed to be older as an ephemeral art such as in sand and body art. Here is some from 1895.
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/aboriginal-body-painting-is-an-ancient-tradition-which-carries-deep-spiritual-significance–474707616972413800/
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Used to believe that dot painting was a modern thing but have seen photos from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s which show aboriginals dressed and painted for a corroboree which clearly show white dots on their bodies .
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It is modern as an art movement and how it is is expressed today.
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Yeah that’s my take on it as well , of all the cave art I’ve seen it’s either X-ray style or the unknown origin Bradbury style but have also seen photos from a Ranger near Innaminka that you would swear were kiwi in origin .
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If it isn’t ancient, it’s not especially traditional.
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It was Geoffrey Bardon’s idea to transfer aspects of the design to canvas. That had never been done before. Prior to that designs were either painted onto bodies or drawn in the sand. Transferring onto canvas was obviously permanent when prior to that there was no permanency.
The Aboriginal flag (for whatever nation it is supposed to represent, which is not clear) was until recently a privately owned copyrighted symbol for which royalties had to be paid for each use. The Government spent $20 million of taxpayer money to purchase the rights to it.
-Thomas retains moral rights to the flag.
-Copyright now owned by Government.
-Flagworld has an exclusive license to be the only ones who can reproduce the flag or bunting.
It hardly seems a flag of the people (or a certain group of people) if one company retains a monopoly to manufacture it.
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But David our WOKE idiots love their BS and fraud and couldn’t care less about their real history or their real world.
As long as they can share their lunacy with like minded loonies they’re happy.
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The venue was on land some way to the east of that building.
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Joanne,
Minor usage note:
The plural of Soros is Soroses (think “keeping up with the Joneses”). I remember working “the Gateses and Jobses” into an internet comment a few years back; was fun. Sounded like Gollum with his “Hobbitses”
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Was that an erratum or errata?
What is the plural of aircraft?
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Planes
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Blimps
Currently misused to describe some people
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Airplanes, gliders, dirigibles, helicopters, kites, balloons, rockets and missiles should be a good start.
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Trick question because “craft ” in that context can be plural.
An aircraft or many aircraft .
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I thought the word “many” defined it as the plural?
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‘Aircraft’ used by itself can be single or plural.
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1/ Aircraft
2/ Aircraft
Which is the plural
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The second one.
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I guess Soros has become a plural, but when I wrote The Soros, I was thinking of only one.
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Green Billionaires
Just look at the Australian clowns Twiggy Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes and their rent seeking SunCable scheme and Twiggy Forrest with his “Lethal Himidity” scare mongering
Just because you have a lot of money – that does not make you more intelligent than the rest of us. The autistic computer programer with a well connected mother – Bill Gates is another classic example,
https://www.lethalhumidity.org/
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More on Twiggy Forrest
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/28/green-energy-billionaire-farmers-affected-could-be-compensated-and-find-other-places-to-farm/
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Forrest should be told to flip off and go make hydrogen in China! At they are using Australian coal
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If you haven’t noticed Hollywoods wokism you have been living under a rock . They have always been a propaganda arm of the MSM for years . Once you head into fantasy and get caught up in their stories (narratives) you become divorced from reality . AIs will accelerate this process and can produce imagery and sound that is very hard to distinguish from reality for most people . Almost everyone is falling into the trap of magical thinking…..
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Video gaming is all virtual reality and is far more popular that “the movies” – See my post at #10.2
You become your own actor in video gaming
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Whenever I’m reading a film review that mentions scientific anomalies, Spacemen, Earthquakes, Monsters, Raising the dead (non-biblical) catastrophic waves and sea levels, Harry Potty or Disney my desire to read on or watch immediately dissipates to zero. Of course that just about covers the cinematic menu currently on offer so I revert to Clint Eastwood, Abbot Costello and Doris Day at least I can get a laugh!
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I disagree with the categorisation of Mad Max as a Climatec Crisis movie though.
The Mad Max scenario is what we get after the Left have destroyed our Civilisation.
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Wasn’t Mad Max predicated on the aftermath of a Global thermal Nuclear War.
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Yes.
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I talked to a group of people during the recent Murray floods and tried to make them wake up and check the data.
But some thought their world was terrible and talked all sorts of BS about worse floods ever, terrible extreme weather and how dangerous the world was today.
I laughed and told them that the reverse was true and hardly anyone died today from extreme weather events compared to 100 years ago.
In fact the data proves that we live in the safest climate in history and our life expectancy is at record levels and our lives are much easier today because we have machines that carry out the hard yakka.
Some refused to budge but others asked me where to get the data and I told them about OWI Data, Jo Nova, Co2 Coalition Scientists, Dr Curry etc.
I think that some were less sure of their facts(???) but some were still hostile that I would dare to question their religious beliefs.
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We have this weird phenomena with human nature in that we despise those people who are “right” but may speak harshly in their beliefs or upset people. Then we will forgive those who were wrong, sometimes massively, and carry on as if nothing happened. I suppose it’s how the human race has endured and lived through all sorts of disasters. We just wake up next day and move on. But the trouble is, we so often don’t learn from our mistakes and history repeats, over and over and over again.
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To put some perspective on the Murray floods, one need only look at the Loxton Tree of Knowledge. 3 bad floods within 5 years back in the 1950s, the worst of which by far occurred in 1956.
http://www.murrayriverphotos.com.au/images/0000/7977/MR00894_copy_large.jpg
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I wonder how long before they move or remove those markers, or even the tree if a windmill is going in there…?
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Don’t give them ideas.The ABC did a story on the Tree, the picture of it attached to the article didn’t show the 1956 marker (but to be fair they did mention that flood within the article)
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Jo, I’m told that Avatar had them crying in theatres across China and it will be very interesting to see the reaction to this news.
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To be fair, disaster movies have been part of Hollywood for a long time. Especially the Planet of the Apes franchise. Look what happened to Alderan in Star Wars. Complete Climate Change.
The ice age dinosaur franchise is about Climate Change, but it’s no one’s fault. Certainly not the humans.
And it’s about time the Avatar franchise had black people, not the Blue patriachy.
As for Snow White, with skin as white as snow and Cleopatra, a Greek girl, rewriting history, gender and race is standard fare for Hollywood. How long before Abraham Lincoln is neither White nor a Republican?
Even Mary Poppins now has a warning as racist with Mary Poppins/Dick Van Dyke and various white chimney sweeps in blackface. How offensive! As for Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid as black, words fail. Even the Chinese find it absurd.
The problem in Hollywood is jumping the shark. And then you get the endless remakes, a special category of films now. Is there a film left which has not been remade? Even multiple times? You have to wonder too when Luke Skywalker will become black and transgender?
And what character can Tom Cruise NOT play? Mission Impossible 5,000?
Meanwhile the actors are all being replaced by AI. Who needs real people? I fully expect that octogenarians Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson will both reappear as non white gay AI adventure characters. Chinese, Spanish or African perhaps.
Soon even the plots will be arbitrary AI. But you can be sure they will pay homage to end of world Climate Change and all the classic plots of the past. I can just see a black musl*m transvestite AI Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea. And blaming it on Climate Change. Take two tablets.
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I can remember the days of the ‘obligatory spade’ added into films for diversity and to hell with the original story. A classic example is Force 10 From Navarone. Having read the book I can confirm that none of the characters were black so Carl Weathers role was added in but that was late 70s Hollywood. Having said that, the Guns of Navarone saw fit to change the sex of the resistance contacts from male to female – god knows what they would be changed to in a remake.
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As of January 14, 2024, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has grossed $574.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $788.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.36 billion. It became the highest-grossing film based on a video game after just one week of release. It also became the first film based on a video game as such to gross $1 billion worldwide.
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I don’t know why anybody is surprised about the waning of cause-effect as a philosophical principal, or the end of the logical system as a means of examination. For over a century science has claimed that nature and ‘chance’ are the all-powerful, self-creating ultimates of the universe. This is pure superstition, in which neither cause-effect nor logic can by definition have a meaningful place; and nobody, but nobody, is permitted to interrupt the magical rain-dance.
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Yep, I’m one of those weird ultra super conspiracy theorists these days. After decades of resisting, I have now adopted a new rule in the last 2 years. FOLLOW THE MONEY. Works every time!!
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This principle has been around since at least Romam times
“sequi pecuniam” from which we get pecuniary interest – something that politician attempt to hide.
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Alex Turnbull has outed himself.
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Current CO2 atmospheric volume is 0.0421% , or 421 ppm.
Greens claim that the Holy Grail is 350 ppm.
But 96% of all CO2 emissions are naturally occurring. So, the critical reduction is 71 ppm. Reduction to save the Earth. According to Models that cannot predict yesterday, much less tomorrow, but claim total accuracy 100 years hence. Ok. Let’s play this game a bit.
So that would be 0.04 x 0.000071 = 0.00000284 of the atmosphere, by volume . or a reduction in emissions of some 1 part in 3521. As AU is 0.016 of world emissions of CO2.
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/
So, AU is responsible for 0.016 x 0.00000284 = 0.0000000045 or 0.0000045% of world wide CO2 emissions.
The human produced amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is approximately 0.000168 parts by volume or 0.0168% v/v of the atmosphere or 1 part in 60,000. And AU contributes 1.6% or 1 part in 372,000 of total CO2.
China contributes 29.18% of global CO2 emissions, or 25 times more than AU. But China is designated a “Developing Nation” and is immune to responsibility for the claimed future harms.
I’d call this political BS. IF an issue exists, China is 2500% more responsible for it than AU.
And, since Models Are Not Evidence, the whole fear mongering, power grabbing, useless, economy destroying, job and life destroying, scam of CAGW political power grabbing,is so demonstrably false, it is a bloody wonder that any of the nitwit criminal politicians who’ve caused it all are not in prison.
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We’ve been cooling for the last 4,000 years.
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1762428696793694273
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Pump climate, Pump Hydro, Pump cow manure it’s all BS
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Disney has spent the last few years catering just for the wokie demographic and, last year, losing US$1B in the process. If the climate crazies want to do the same I have no problems. There are plenty of good old movies and TV series about and there’s plenty of other things to do.
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Amazing how Hollywood never made a movie about Michael Crichton’s book- State of Fear. They made movies about his other books starting way back with The Andromeda Strain. Funny that.
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When you have woke gullible Western government’s throwing TRILLIONS of taxpayers dollars to build ruinables, these “BILLIONAIRES” are the investors behind this ponzi scheme, they can’t lose. How absolutely moronic has the Western world become. Enjoy your renewables energy future jail kids.
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How many are gullible and how many are compromised, captured, in it up to their neck?
Hanlon’s razor just doesn’t apply here, remember, these are the best governments money can buy.
“Ve haf penetrated ze Kabinetz of ze Vorld!” Homo Deus
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All these totalitarian sociopaths need to remember TWO WORDS:
“Memento Mori”
Yeah, it’s Latin.
And it translates as:
“Remember Mortality” or Remember, thou art MORTAL”.
The planet is awash with dangerous ratbags in full Jackboot mode.
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It appears someone knows what they’re doing. No revelations there. Apparently when you watch a film or TV “entertainment” your cerebral cortex virtually switches off within less than a minute. All the better to practice some mind control, ie your rabid subconscious mind just soaks the programming up, pun unintended. Its a great way to control what many think. Not new though. Technique can go both ways of course. Just another important part of the control grid.
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They followed the science and it led to fiction.
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[…] By Jo Nova […]
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Didn’t the BBC do this many years ago? And also tried to hide it?
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